Principles of Management

Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management.




This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation.




No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.

Contributing Authors







David S. Bright, Wright State University

Anastasia H. Cortes, Virginia Tech University

Eva Hartmann, University of Richmond

K. Praveen Parboteeah, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Jon L. Pierce, University of Minnesota-Duluth

Monique Reece

Amit Shah, Frostburg State University

Siri Terjesen, American University

Joseph Weiss, Bentley University

Margaret A. White, Oklahoma State University

Donald G. Gardner, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs

Jason Lambert, Texas Woman's University

Laura M. Leduc, James Madison University

Joy Leopold, Webster University

Jeffrey Muldoon, Emporia State University

James S. O'Rourke, University of Notre Dame